Friday, February 19, 2010

Kmart I Am So Sorry

My Kmart tray table finally arrived yesterday after my wimpy UPS man took two weeks to get it off his truck because of the snow we've had. But I have to say that my recent purchases from JCPenney and Kmart have been epiphanies. I take back having never set foot in your stores or gone to your websites. The tray table was beautifully packaged, took 5 minutes to put together, and is great. It is heavy, well made, elegant, and looks ten times more expensive than its $69.99 with free shipping. I have set it up in my sun room for tea and scones tomorrow morning using my daughter's childhood china by Mottahedeh. The ginger jar next to it I bought yesterday at HomeGoods for $20. Cute, eh? (A little Canadian Olympics lingo.) BTW, they have restocked the tray table and it is again available. Click on the photo to enlarge it.

Lovely to see it unwrapped! Mine came one day last week and I have not yet removed it from the box..still deciding where to put it. I also purchased that same ginger jar from HG (2 of them actually-symmetry, you know)...a whole lot of "look" for not much money. Your display looks so nice. And I am green with envy over the miniature garden stool...I can't imagine where to find one but intend to keep my eyes peeled...please share your source. Thank you for another sweet post. Happy weekend to you!

I think we have to have our eyes wide open. As we know good things/people often come from humble places. Your tray table is a wonderful example. Being a bit obsessive I might glue a decorative something (button perhaps?) to cover the screw. (If you do this, you have to cut the shank off with nippers.) Smitten by the garden chair.

It looks so good with all your blue and white! I will have to share this with my sister. Once when we were out shopping together, I said I have to run into Wal-Mart and she said "You do that, I'll wait in the car". I kid you not!!!

Home Before Dark-I actually love stores like Target, HomeGoods, etc. I just had not realized that JCPenney and Kmart had gotten stylish! The bolts don't show-they are recessed in the holes. With tray tables, one does need to tighten them sometimes, so something glued on would be problematic.

I bought the same ginger jar only as a pair! Another serendipitous moment......you blogged about the oversized ginger jars and low and behold, that very same day.....there they were at Homegoods. Of course I had to blog about them.

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